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Management & Organizations

Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations

Assistant Professor of Psychology (Courtesy)

Portrait of Ivuoma Onyeador, Faculty at the Kellogg School of Management

Ivuoma Onyeador is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations. Her research examines how people judge and respond to group-based discrimination and disparities. Through her research program, she aims to increase people’s understanding of and willingness to address inequality. Professor Onyeador’s research has been published in leading journals such as Psychological Science and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Her work has also been featured in popular press outlets, including The New York Times and The Atlantic.

In recognition of her contributions, she has been named a "Rising Star" by the Association for Psychological Science, selected for the SAGE Early Career Trajectory award by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and for a Mission Award from the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. In 2022, she was named one of the best 40 under 40 MBA professors by Poets & Quants. In 2024-2025, she'll be on leave at Harvard Business School.

Professor Onyeador earned her B.S. in Psychology, with distinction, from Yale University, her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UCLA, and was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

  • B.S., 2011, Psychology, Yale University, with distinction
    M.A., 2013, Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
    Ph.D., 2017, Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Assistant Professor, Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2020-present
    Assistant Professor, Psychology (by courtesy), Northwestern University, 2020-present
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology, Yale University, 2018-2020
    Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology, Yale University, 2017-2018
  • CASBS Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 09/2024 - 06/2025
    Visiting Fellow, Institute for Business in Global Society,, Harvard Business School, 09/2024 - 05/2025
    Visiting Fellow, Institute for Business in Global Society, Harvard Business School, 09/2024 - 05/2025
    Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (declined), Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 09/2024 - 06/2025
    Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors, Poets & Quants
    Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors, Poets & Quants
    SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science
    Admired Scholar, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    Service to SPSP Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    Mission Award - The SIPS Mission Award is the highest recognition the organization bestows., Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
    Admired Scholar, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
  • Ad-hoc Reviewer, Russell Sage Foundation: Dissertation grants, 2023
    Ad-hoc Reviewer, National Science Foundation: SBE postdoc grants, 2023
    Editorial Board, Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2020
    Editorial Board, Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2021
    Referee, Psychological Science, 2020
    Ad-hoc Reviewer, Organization Science, 2021
    Referee, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019
    Referee, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2020
    Referee, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020
    Referee, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2020
    Referee, Nature Human Behavior, 2020
    Referee, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 2021
    Referee, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nexus, 2021
    Ad-hoc Reviewer, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2021
    Referee, Race and Social Problems, 2020
    Referee, Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, 2020
    Referee, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2020

Special Topics in Management & Organizations: Micro (MORS-521-1)

The course covers classic and recent research topics in micro-oriented areas of Management and Organizations. Topics are drawn from social psychology, organizational behavior, and micro-organizational research methods.